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Scott Edward Haugen

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Scott Edward Haugen as Thomas Jefferson in the film Mercedes Ray

Scott Edward Haugen (b. January 4, 1981) (sometimes billed as Scott Haugen) was born in Plant City, Florida on January 4, 1981 to a truck driver father and phone company worker mother. His family, originally from the Midwest, soon returned to Minnesota just five months after Haugen's birth. He was raised in Crookston, Minnesota and lived there for ten years. Haugen first acted in the third grade, appearing in three plays (two of which featured him in leading roles). His family lived there until early summer 1991, at which time his mother received a transfer from the the U.S. Post Office in Crookston to the U.S. Post Office in International Falls, Minnesota, across the Rainy River from Canada.

After living there until late spring of 1994, his family then returned to the Red River Valley of the North and moved to Dilworth, Minnesota. After a brief time away from acting, Haugen returned to the theatre and performed in a junior high production of Oh, What a Tangled Web. Upon entering senior high school, Haugen appeared in his very first production of a Shakespeare play as Fortinbras in Hamlet. He would subsequently appear as Leonato in Shakepeare's Much Ado About Nothing, and then starred as the titular Scottish thane in Macbeth. After being absent from the theatre for almost half a decade, Haugen returned to the Bard's work in the summer of 2005 as Prince Escalus in a Shakespeare in the park production of Romeo and Juliet with the Fargo-based independent theatre company Undiscovered Country Productions.

Later that winter, Haugen co-starred as Richard the Lionhearted in Undiscovered Country Productions' interpretation of James Goldman's The Lion in Winter (which Haugen cites as his personal favorite role and production of all the theatre he has done). In the summer of 2006, Scott returned to the park with his fellow players to appear as Borachio in his second production of Much Ado About Nothing. Most recently, Haugen portrayed Giles Ralston in the company's 2007 winter production of Agatha Christie's legendary murder mystery The Moustrap, and as Orlando in As You Like It, UCP's 2007 summer Shakespeare in the park production, which was performed at Island Park in Fargo.

Beginning in the early fall of 2005, Haugen made his first foray into film and joined the production of the sci-fi-time-travel-ensemble-comedy Mercedes Ray, created by his friend and fellow actor Tucker Lucas. Lucas was the auteur behind the camera, while Haugen portrayed a young, pre-presidential Thomas Jefferson. Haugen also co-produced this independent film. Mercedes Ray had its first screening at the Main Avenue Theatre in Fargo on February 2, 2007 for the production's cast and crew. The film opened to the public on May 26, 2007 at the historic Fargo Theatre.

In the fall of 2006 Haugen co-directed, co-wrote and co-starred in the faux documentary short Student Senate: A Documentary with his girlfriend and fellow filmmaker Stephanie Morse.

In the fall of 2007 Haugen co-starred in Honor Guard, a two-person character study about a pair of young U.S. soldiers who have served in Iraq together but are now in the United States. One of them, Dean (played by Haugen), is returning to the Middle East voluntarily to serve a second tour of duty. The short film was written, produced and directed by Stephanie Morse.

Haugen is currently working on pre-production of Preacher Marsh's Tapes as director, producer, co-writer and co-star. The postmodern music video/documentary is based on the moody album of the same name, and its artist, Haugen's friend, Minneapolis-based singer-songwriter Ken Parker. The film is currently in pre-production and is tentatively slated to begin shooting in the winter of 2009.

Haugen is presently, and largely, engaged and enamored in politics and activism, and is a member and officer of the Democratic-NPL Party of North Dakota. As a result of his commitment to these pursuits, most of Haugen's creative and artistic endeavors have been put on the back burner. He has worked on twelve political campaigns (as well as numerous, additional non-partisan ones) in the last four years, with 2008 finding him working on races for Al Franken for U.S. Senate, Tim Mathern for ND Governor, Mitch Vance for ND State Treasurer and Hillary Rodham Clinton for President. Haugen held varying roles in these races, from Adviser to Deputy Campaign Manager. Haugen was elected on January 18, 2009 as the Treasurer of the North Dakota State District 21 Democratic-NPL Party.

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[edit] About Scott Edward Haugen

Height: 6' 1"

Currently makes his home in Fargo, North Dakota.

Shares a birthday with numerous actors including: Dyan Cannon, Julia Ormond, Ann Magnuson, Dave Foley, Julian Sands, Matt Frewer, Jane Wyman, Jesse White and Sterling Holloway. He also shares a birthday with singers Michael Stipe and Patty Loveless, author Jakob Grimm, boxer Floyd Patterson and inventor Louis Braille.

He is a distant relative of band leader Lawrence Welk.

Has an older brother, Adam, and a younger sister, Lindsey.

Enjoys playing tennis.

Played hockey as a right-defenseman for many years of his youth.

Graduated from D-G-F High School in Glyndon, Minnesota in 1999.

Is an alum of Minnesota State University Moorhead where he earned a Bachelor's of Arts degree in English Literature.

Is currently working as a Community Organizer for Repower America.

Currently serves as the Treasurer of Legislative District 21 for the North Dakota Democratic-NPL Party

Worked as an Adviser and Strategist on the Mitch Vance for State Treasurer (D-ND) campaign in 2008.

Worked as the Deputy Campaign Manager and Director of Campaign Field Operations for the Tim Mathern for Governor (D-ND) campaign in 2008.

Was the North Dakota State Director of the HCAN (Health Care for America NOW!) campaign in 2008.

Worked as a Community Organizer with Change That Works in Fargo.

Is a Board Member of PEPP (People Escaping Poverty Project). PEPP is a grassroots organization located on the border of Minnesota and North Dakota. Since 1986, PEPP has been working in Moorhead, Minnesota and Fargo, North Dakota, as well as rural Minnesota and North Dakota, in grassroots and community organizing efforts. PEPP began and evolved from a small group of women seeking economic justice, into a builder of organizations and defender of human rights.

Is a member of the League of Women Voters of the Red River Valley.

Served two terms as President of College Democrats at Minnesota State University Moorhead from 2006-2008. Haugen also served as the Liaison to Cass County Democrats in the winter and spring of 2007.

Founded MSUM Students for Hillary Clinton in 2008 and served as the organization's Co-chair.

In 2006 he was a member of the Student Senate at Minnesota State University Moorhead and served as the Senator of Education and Human Services where he sat on both the Legislative and Internal Affairs Committee and the Diversity Committee. Haugen served frequently within the Senate as a proxy through much of the remainder of his time at MSUM.

Made a bid for MSUM Student Senate Vice President during the 2007 spring elections. Of the numerous ballot and write-in candidates who ran, Haugen received the third-largest amount of votes for that race at the university.

Served as the official Minnesota State University Student Association GOTV (Get Out the Vote) Representative at Minnesota State University Moorhead for the 2006 mid-term elections.

Served as an Election Advocate for DFL U.S. Senate candidate Al Franken in Clay County during the hotly contested recount in Minnesota in 2008.

Worked for and represented Al Franken's U.S. Senate campaign in Moorhead, Minnesota and at MSUM.

Worked for and represented Hillary Rodham Clinton's 2008 Presidential campaign in Moorhead, Minnesota and at MSUM.

Was a delegate for Hillary Rodham Clinton for President at the April 2008 Democratic-NPL State Convention in Grand Forks, North Dakota where Clinton (whom Haugen met that evening) was in attendance as a keynote speaker along with President Barack Obama.

Attended the November 2007 Jefferson-Jackson Democratic Party Dinner in Des Moines, Iowa where Haugen met President Barack Obama, First Lady Michelle Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), Senator Chris Dodd (D-CT), Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA) and music impresario, and Hillary Clinton supporter, Quincy Jones. In September of 2007, Haugen also met Democratic Presidential candidate Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) in Fargo as part of Kucinich's national campaign for his party's nomination for President.

Worked for the Democratic-NPL party on the hugely successful re-election campaigns for North Dakota U.S. Senator Kent Conrad and North Dakota U.S. Congressman Earl Pomeroy, both of whom are Democrats. Both incumbents were handily re-elected in their 2006 bids.

Worked as the Campaign Manager and Chief Strategist for his friend J.J. Gordon's 2006 mayoral bid in Fargo, North Dakota.

Politics run deep in Haugen's family. His grandmother, the late Bernice Haugen, was hugely active within the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party (Minnesota's equivalent to the U.S. Democratic Party) and once served as the Chairwoman of Polk County and as Vice Chairwoman of the 7th U.S. Congressional District in Minnesota. She was also a close personal friend and colleague of former U.S. Senator, Vice President, and Presidential candidate Walter Mondale, and former Minnesota U.S. Senator, Vice President and Presidential candidate William Hubert Humphrey. Haugen's aunt, Barbara Haugen (a Democrat), worked in the West Wing of the White House as Director of Communications for a Senior Adviser to President Jimmy Carter during the Carter-Mondale administration. Haugen's uncle, John Haugen (an Independent), was for many years the Communications Director for the Democratic side of the House Agriculture Committee in Washington, D.C. under U.S. Congressman Charlie Stenholm (D-TX), the former congressman and chairman of that committee. John served his last few years before retirement as Communications Director for the Republican side of that same committee.

Served as an Executive Leader of the Campus Freethought Alliance at Minnesota State University Moorhead from 2007-2008, and acted as Elections Chair for the organization's large officers primary and caucus elections in April 2008.

Once served as a member of TOCAR (Training Our Campuses Against Racism) at Minnesota State University Moorhead. Haugen was in the Academics Unit of this organization which is comprised primarily of faculty.

Was a volunteer big brother for the Big Brothers Big Sisters of America program from 2004-2007.

Has fostered two children--a boy, Bonifice Muindi from Kenya and a girl, Katrina Gonzales from The Philippines--through Child Reach since 2003.

Has a cat named Erica, whom he named after Jill Clayburgh's character from the 1978 Paul Mazursky film An Unmarried Woman.

Once had a German Shepherd dog named Ebony.

Cites Sandy Dennis, Geraldine Page, Michael Murphy, Oliver Reed, Jack Nicholson, Charles Hallahan, Meryl Streep, Bill Murray, Ellen Burstyn, Peter Ustinov, Gene Hackman, Robert Shaw, Charlton Heston, Katharine Hepburn, Michael Caine, Tom Hanks, Shelley Winters, Jack Lemmon, and Anthony Perkins as his favorite actors and biggest influences. In fact, Haugen said it was Perkins' remarkable performance in Psycho (1960) that influenced him to want to be an actor.

Cites Woody Allen as his favorite screenwriter.

Cites Robert Altman as his favorite filmmaker. Altman's classic 1975 opus Nashville is Haugen's favorite film.

His favorite genre of music is classical.

Haugen's two favorite songs are "Afraid of Sunlight" by Marillion and "Mind Games" by John Lennon.

His favorite book is Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis.

Grew a thick, full beard for his portrayal of Richard the Lionhearted in The Lion in Winter.

Grew a Balboesque beard for his portrayal of Borachio in Much Ado About Nothing.

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